1 January 1794 to 29 February 1796

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Description

This volume brings Jefferson into retirement after his tenure as Secretary of State and returns him to private life at Monticello. He professes his desire to be free of public responsibilities and live the life of a farmer, spending his time tending to his estates. Turning his attention to the improvement of his farms and finances, Jefferson surveys his fields, experiments with crop rotation, and establishes a nailery on Mulberry Row. He embarks upon an ambitious plan to renovate Monticello, a long-term task that will eventually transform his residence.

Although Jefferson is distant from Philadelphia, the seat of the federal government, he is not completely divorced from the politics of the day. His friends, especially James Madison, with whom he exchanges almost sixty letters in the period covered by this volume, keep him fully informed about the efforts of Republican county and town meetings, the Virginia General Assembly, Congress, and the press to counter Federalist policies. An emerging Republican opposition is taking shape in response to the Jay Treaty, and Jefferson is keenly interested in its progress. Although in June 1795 he claims to have “proscribed newspapers” from Monticello, in fact he never entirely cuts himself off from the world. At the end of that year, he takes pains to ensure that he will have two full sets of Benjamin Franklin Bache’s Aurora, the influential Republican newspaper, one set to be held in Philadelphia for binding and one to be sent directly to Monticello.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

FOREWORD	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	ix
GUIDE TO EDITORIAL APPARATUS	xi
ILLUSTRATIONS	xxxvii
JEFFERSON CHRONOLOGY	2

1794

From George Washington, 1 January	3
To John Ross, enclosing Power of Attorney, 2 January	3
To Certain Diplomats of the United States, 3 January	4
To George Hammond, 3 January	5
To Thomas Willing and Willink, Van Staphorst & Hubbard, January	3

From Horatio Gates, 5 January	6
From Hauterive, 15 January	7
Memorandum to Thomas Mann Randolph, [ca. 16-24 January]	8
From Harry Innes, 21 January	9
From Robert Leslie, 22 January	10
To Archibald Stuart, 26 January	11
From Thomas Pinckney, with Jefferson's Note, 29 January	11
From Ferdinando Fairfax, 31 January	12
To Horatio Gates, 3 February	14
To James Innes, 3 February	15
To Edmund Randolph, 3 February	15
From O. A. Bertrand, enclosing List of Notes and Agricultural Prospectus, 8 February
From Tobias Lear, 12 February	19
To Hartman Elliot, 15 February	20
To James Madison, 15 February	21
From Tench Coxe, 22 February	22
From Tench Coxe, 27 February	25
From James Madison, 2 March	26
From James Monroe, 3 March	29
From James Madison, 9 March	31
From Giuseppe Ceracchi, 11 March	33
To James Monroe, 11 March	34
From James Madison, 12 March	35
From Richard Peters, 13 March	36
From Horatio Gates, 14 March	37
From James Madison, 14 March	38
From Tench Coxe, 16 March	39
From James Monroe, 16 March	40
From Diodati, 17 March	42
From James Madison, 24 March	43
From James Madison, 26 March	43
From James Monroe, 26 March	45
From James Madison, 31 March	45
From James Monroe, 31 March	46
From James Monroe, 2 April	47
To Thomas Walker, Jr., 2 April	48
To Benjamin Bankson, 3 April	48
To James Madison, 3 April	49
From John Adams, 4 April	50
From James Lyle, 14 April	51
From James Madison, 14 April	51
To Edmund Randolph, [17 April]	53
To Charles Rose, 17 April	53
To James Lyle, 24 April	54
To James Monroe, 24 April	55
From George Washington, 24 April	56
To John Adams, 25 April	57
To Ferdinando Fairfax, 25 April	58
To Madame Plumard de Bellanger, 25 April	58
To John Garland Jefferson, 26 April	60
From James Madison, 28 April	62
To William Nelson, Jr., 28 April	63
To John Ross, 30 April	65
Memorandum from Bowling Clark, April	65
To Charles Carter, 1 May	66
To Tench Coxe, 1 May	66
To John Taylor, 1 May	68
From James Monroe, 4 May	69
From John Adams, 4 May	71
From James Madison, 11 May	72
To Edmund Randolph, 14 May	74
To George Washington, 14 May	74
To James Madison, 15 May	75
From Joseph L'Epine, 16 May	77
From William Short, 22 May	78
From James Madison, 25 May	84
From James Monroe, 26 May	85
From James Monroe, 27 May	86
To John Garland Jefferson, 28 May	87
To Joseph L'Epine, 28 May	88
To Edmund Randolph, 28 May	89
From Tench Coxe, 31 May	89
From James Madison, 1 June	92
From John Taylor, 1 June	93
From James Monroe, 6 June	96
From Thomas Pinckney, 6 June	97
To James Brown, 8 June	97
List of Unretained Letters, [ca. 9 June]	98
From James Monroe, 17 June	100
From Timothy Pickering, 30 June	101
From Tench Coxe, 7 July	101
From John Leach, 12 July	103
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 July	104
To Timothy Pickering, 23 July	104
From William W. Hening, 24 July	105
To Richard Morris, 27 July	106
To Benjamin Carter Waller, 27 July	107
From Benjamin Carter Waller, 2 August	107
To Christopher Clark, 5 August	108
To Nicholas Davies, 6 August	109
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 August	111
From John Taylor, 15 August	112
To James Steptoe, 16 August	113
To Francis Eppes, 28 August	114
From Edmund Randolph, 28 August, enclosing
Josef de Jaudenes to Edmund Randolph, 16 August, and
Edmund Randolph's Memorandum of a Conference with
Josef de Jaudenes, 26 August
From François D'Ivernois, 5 September, enclosing First Letter
on the Genevan Revolution, 22 August
From James Monroe, 7 September	145
To Edmund Randolph, 7 September	148
Power of Attorney to Caleb Lownes, 11 September	148
From François D'Ivernois, enclosing Queries, 16 September	150
To Joseph Mussi, 17 September	155
To Eliza House Trist, 17 September	155
From François D'Ivernois, enclosing Second Letter
on the Genevan Revolution, 23 September
From François D'Ivernois, 23 September	164
To Dabney Carr, 24 September	166
To Garrett Minor, 24 September	167
To Thomas Divers, 28 September	168
To Benjamin Franklin Bache, 29 September	168
To James Brown, 1 October	169
From François D'Ivernois, 2 October	170
From François D'Ivernois, enclosing Third Letter on
the Genevan Revolution, 4 October
From James Madison, 5 October	178
To John Barnes, 9 October	179
To Benjamin Carter Waller, 9 October	180
To George Wythe, [23 October]	181
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 27 October	182
To James Madison, 30 October	182
To Henry Remsen, 30 October	183
To Archibald Stuart, 30 October	184
From George Wythe, 1 November	184
From William Short, 4 November	185
To James Madison, 6 November	186
To Edmund Randolph, [6 November]	187
From Samuel Blackden, 9 November	187
From François D'Ivernois, 11 November, enclosing
Decree of the Geneva National Commission, 28 September,
and Extract from Etienne Pestre's Pamphlet, October
From Giuseppe Ceracchi, 13 November	200
From Maria Cosway, 13 November	201
From James Madison, 16 November	202
To John Barnes, 20 November	204
To William Branch Giles, 20 November	205
To James Maury, 20 November	206
To Joseph Mussi, 20 November	206
From John Trumbull, 20 November	207
From John Adams, 21 November	207
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 23 November	208
From Maria Cosway, 24 November	209
From Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 29 November	211
From James Madison, 30 November	211
To Archibald Stuart, 2 December	214
From William Branch Giles, 7 December	214
To James Madison, 9 December	216
To Samuel Blackden, 11 December	216
To James Madison, 12 December	217
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 12 December	217
To James Lyle, 14 December	218
To William Branch Giles, 17 December	218
To Richard Adams, 18 December	219
From James Madison, 21 December	220
Deed of Manumission for Robert Hemings, [24 December]	222
To James Lyle, 24 December	223
From Richard Adams, 26 December	224
Authorization for J. P. P. Derieux, 26 December	224
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 December	225
To Thomas Walker, Jr., 26 December	227
To James Madison, 28 December	228
To John Taylor, 29 December	230
Memorandum from Eli Alexander, [ca. December]	235
Memorandum from Eli Alexander, [1794-95?]	236
Notes for Revising the Virginia Constitution, [1794 or later]	236

1795

From Marc Auguste Pictet, 1 January	239
From William Branch Giles, 4 January	240
To Henry Skipwith, 4 January	241
To Thomas Mann Randolph, [8 January]	242
Memorandum from Eli Alexander, 10 January	243
To Archibald Stuart, 10 January	243
From James Madison, 11 January	244
To Henry Banks, 15 January	245
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 15 January	246
To Joseph Mussi, 21 January	247
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 22 January	249
From James Madison, 26 January	250
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 29 January	251
From William Short, 29 January	252
Memorandum from Robert Bailey, [January]	256
From William Frederick Ast, 1 February	257
From John Adams, 5 February	258
To James Madison, 5 February	259
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 5 February	260
To John Adams, 6 February	261
To François D'Ivernois, 6 February	262
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 February	264
From James Madison, 15 February	265
To Robert Morris, 19 February	267
Notes on Letters from François D'Ivernois, [19-23 February]	268
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 February	270
To Archibald Stuart, enclosing Notes on Potash and Pearl Ash,
19 February
To Thomas A. Taylor, 19 February	272
To Richard Claiborne, 21 February	273
From Robert Pollard, 22 February	274
To James Madison, 23 February	274
To Edmund Randolph, 23 February	275
To George Washington, 23 February	275
To David Rittenhouse, 24 February	279
To John Barnes, 25 February	279
From François D'Ivernois, [26 February]	280
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 February	281
From James Madison, [ca. February-March]	284
From Dugald Stewart, 1 March	284
Bill in Chancery of Wayles's Executors against the Heirs of
Richard Randolph, [on or before 2 March]
To James Madison, 5 March	291
To Thomas Pinckney, 5 March	292
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 5 March	293
From John Taylor, 5 March	293
To Joshua Fry, 8 March	302
From Giuseppe Ceracchi, 9 March	302
To John Mason, 11 March	304
To Henry Remsen, 11 March	304
To William Champe Carter, 15 March	305
From George Washington, 15 March	306
From William Champe Carter, 19 March	309
From Tench Coxe, 20 March	309
From François D'Ivernois, 21 March	310
From James Madison, 23 March	315
From Jean Antoine Gautier, 24 March	317
From Grand & Cie., 24 March	317
From Grand & Cie. and Gautier & Cie., 24 March	318
From George Wythe, 26 March	319
From Jean Nicolas Démeunier, 30 March	319
From George Washington, 30 March	321
From James Lyle, 31 March	321
To Richard Hanson, 2 April	322
To Henry Remsen, 2 April	323
To Thomas A. Taylor, 2 April	323
From John Carey, 6 April	324
From Edmund Randolph, 11 April	325
From William Champe Carter, [on or before 13 April]	326
To John Taylor, 13 April	326
To William Champe Carter, 15 April	327
To John Taylor, 15 April	328
To John Barnes, 16 April	328
From William Branch Giles, 16 April	329
To James Brown, 18 April	330
To Archibald Stuart, 18 April	331
To George Wythe, 18 April	332
Articles of Agreement with William Champe Carter, 20 April	332
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 20 April	334
To John Barnes, 23 April	334
To William Temple, 26 April	335
To William Branch Giles, 27 April	336
To John Harvie, Jr., 27 April	337
To James Madison, 27 April	338
To Jean Nicolas Démeunier, 29 April	340
From Eli Alexander, April	342
From Robert Pollard, 1 May	342
To James Monroe, 5 May	342
From Madame de Chastellux, 6 May	343
To James Brown, 7 May	345
To William O. Callis, 8 May	346
From John Harvie, Jr., 9 May	347
From Giuseppe Ceracchi, 11 May	347
To James Steptoe, 17 May	349
To Archibald Stuart, 17 May	349
To Isaac Zane, 17 May	350
To Archibald Stuart, 23 May	350
To Robert Brooke, 24 May	352
To William Short, 25 May	353
To Froullé, 26 May	357
To James Monroe, 26 May	359
To John Adams, 27 May	363
From Rodolph Vall-Travers, 29 May	363
To James Brown, 30 May	365
To Alexander Donald, 30 May	366
To Philip Mazzei, 30 May	368
Notes on Conversations with William Strickland, May	371
To Tench Coxe, 1 June	373
To Henry Knox, 1 June	374
From Robert Morris, 1 June	375
To Edmund Randolph, 1 June	376
To Benjamin Franklin Bache, 2 June	377
To John Barnes, 3 June	378
To John Barnes, 3 June	379
To William Champe Carter, 3 June	379
To Sarah Champe Carter, 4 June	380
From William Champe Carter, [ca. 4 June]	381
From William Champe Carter, 5 June	381
From James Blake, 6 June	381
To John Barnes, 8 June	383
To John Taylor, 8 June	383
To Archibald Stuart, 11 June	384
From John Blair, 13 June	384
From John Barnes, 14 June	385
From James Madison, 14 June	386
To Henry Remsen, 18 June	388
From Henry Knox, 20 June	389
From Robert Pollard, 21 June	389
To John Barnes, 24 June	390
From James Monroe, 27 June, enclosing Sketch of
the State of Affairs in France, 23 June
From Sarah Champe Carter, 30 June	398
To Archibald Stuart, 30 June	399
From Henry Tazewell, 1 July	399
From James Monroe, 3 July	401
From James Ogilvie, [before 3 July]	401
From Mann Page, 3 July	404
From John Jay, 7 July	405
To James Lyle, 10 July	405
From John Craig Millar, 10 July	406
From William Branch Giles, 13 July	407
To James Madison, 13 July	408
To Archibald Stuart, 14 July	408
From Sir John Sinclair, 15 July	409
To James Brown, 16 July	409
To Archibald Stuart, 20 July	410
To John Barnes, 21 July	410
Notes on Infractions of Neutral Rights by France and
Great Britain, [after 21 July]
Notes on the Account with Richard Harvie & Company, 22 July	413
From John Breckinridge, 25 July	417
From Robert Pollard, 25 July	418
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 July	419
To Archibald Stuart, 26 July	419
From John Barnes, enclosing Account, 28 July	420
From Tench Coxe, 30 July	421
From Christoph Daniel Ebeling, enclosing
Note on Sources, 30 July
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 31 July	429
To William Champe Carter, 3 August	430
To James Madison, 3 August	430
To Robert Pollard, 3 August	431
List of Groceries for Gamble & Temple, [6 August?]	431
From James Madison, 6 August	432
From Robert Pollard, 9 August	434
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 August	434
To John Barnes, 12 August	436
To Joseph Donath, 12 August	436
Notes for Account with John Barnes, [after 12 August]	437
To Robert Pollard, 12 August	438
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 18 August	438
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 20 August	439
To Mann Page, 30 August	440
From Anthony Gerna, 2 September	441
From William Short, 2 September	442
To John Wayles Eppes, 3 September	446
From William Short, 3 September	446
From Robert Brooke, 4 September	447
To James Monroe, 6 September	448
To Madame de Tessé, 6 September	451
To Jean Antoine Gautier, 7 September	452
To Angelica Schuyler Church, 8 September	454
To Maria Cosway, 8 September	455
To Philip Mazzei, 8 September	456
To Thomas Pinckney, 8 September	457
From Pierre Auguste Adet, 9 September	458
To Caleb Lownes, 9 September	459
Notes on St. George Tucker's Measurements of the
Natural Bridge, 9 September
To Tench Coxe, 10 September	460
From Grand & Cie., 11 September	461
To Charles Lilburne Lewis, 11 September	462
To George Washington, 12 September	463
To John Craig Millar, 13 September	465
To Henry Tazewell, 13 September	466
To John Barnes, 14 September	466
To Sampson Crosby, 15 September	467
To St. George Tucker, 15 September	468
To Joseph Donath, 16 September	469
From Rodolph Vall-Travers, 16 September	469
Inquest on Shadwell Mill, 18 September	471
To James Madison, 21 September	475
From John Carr, 22 September	477
To Eliza House Trist, 23 September	478
To Bushrod Washington, 23 September	479
Bill in Chancery on the Henderson Milldam, [24 September]	480
From Richard Harrison, 28 September	485
To William Alexander, 29 September	487
From William Short, 30 September	487
To Bushrod Washington, 1 October	497
From George Washington, 4 October	498
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 10 October	500
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 10 October	501
From Edward Rutledge, 12 October	502
To Pierre Auguste Adet, 14 October	503
From Antonia Carmichael, 14 October	504
To Marc Auguste Pictet, 14 October	505
Notes on the Letter of Christoph Daniel Ebeling,
[after 15 October]
From James Madison, 18 October	510
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 19 October	512
From James Blake, 20 October	513
To James Brown, 20 October	513
From James Lyle, 23 October	514
To James Lyle, 28 October	514
From William Branch Giles, 29 October	515
From Tench Coxe, 30 October	516
From Louis of Parma, 2 November	517
From Bushrod Washington, 2 November	518
From James Lyle, 3 November	519
To the Heirs of Bennett Henderson, 7 November	520
To James Lyle, 8 November	521
From James Madison, 8 November	521
To Madame de Kersaint, 9 November	522
To James Lyle, 12 November	522
To Richard Harrison, 13 November	523
From Volney, with Postscript by Thomas Lee Shippen, 13 November	525
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 November	527
From James Monroe, 18 November	527
From James Lyle, 19 November	534
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 November	534
To James Lyle, 25 November	536
To Thomas Mann Randolph, enclosing State of the Case for
the Virginia Land Office, 25 November
To James Madison, 26 November	539
From Richard Harrison, 28 November	541
To Edward Rutledge, 30 November	541
To James Madison, 3 December	542
From Maria Cosway, 4 December	543
From James Madison, 6 December	544
From James Blake, 8 December	545
From William Branch Giles, 9 December	545
To Thomas Lee Shippen, 9 December	548
From Sir Peyton Skipwith, 9 December	549
To Volney, 9 December	550
To John Barnes, 11 December	552
To Bowling Clark, 12 December	553
To Richard Stith, 12 December	553
From James Madison, 13 December	554
From William Branch Giles, 15 December	555
To Henry Remsen, 17 December	557
From William Branch Giles, 20 December	558
To Sir Peyton Skipwith, 24 December	560
To Benjamin Franklin Bache, 26 December	560
To Sampson Crosby, [26] December	561
From James Madison, 27 December	562
Notes on Edmund Randolph's Vindication, [after 29 December]	563
To William Branch Giles, 31 December	565
Notes of a Conversation with Edmund Randolph, [after 1795]	568

1796

From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 1 January	569
From George Wythe, 1 January	569
From James Hopkins, 2 January	570
To J. P. P. Derieux, 3 January	572
To Archibald Stuart, 3 January	572
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 5 January	574
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 6 January	574
From James Madison, 10 January	576
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 January	579
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 January	581
To George Wythe, 12 January	581
To George Wythe, 16 January	582
To George Wythe, enclosing Statement of the Laws of Virginia,
16 January
To John Barnes, 17 January	591
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 18 January	592
To John Barnes, 24 January	593
From Jonathan Williams, 24 January, enclosing Extract from
Meteorological Journal, 1791, and Height of
Virginia Mountains by Barometrical Measurement
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 25 January	599
From Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 27 January	599
From John Adams, 31 January	600
From James Madison, 31 January	600
To Philip Mazzei, 31 January	603
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 31 January	604
Deed of Manumission for James Hemings, 5 February	605
From James Madison, 7 February	606
To Thomas Mann Randolph, [7 February]	607
To John Barnes, 14 February	609
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 14 February	609
James Hemings's Inventory of Kitchen Utensils at Monticello,
[20 February]
To John Barnes, enclosing Power of Attorney, 21 February	611
To James Madison, 21 February	612
From James Madison, 21 February	613
To John Harvie, Jr., 22 February	614
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 February	616
To Archibald Stuart, 22 February	617
To John Adams, 28 February	618
To John Barnes, 28 February	620
To Tobias Lear, 28 February	620
To Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 28 February	621
To James Blake, 29 February	622
To Sampson Crosby, 29 February	622
From John Harvie, Jr., 29 February	623
From James Madison, 29 February	623
To Robert Pollard, 29 February	624
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 29 February	625

INDEX	627

Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

A

Abelard, Pierre

Veritables Lettres d'Abeillard et d'Héloise, 358

Abridgment of the Publick Laws of Virginia, in Force and Use, June 10. 1720 (William Beverley)

and TJ's collection of Va. laws, 589

Adams, Abigail, 57, 363, 619

Adams, John

letters to, 57, 261-2, 363, 618-19

letters from, 50-1, 71-2, 207-8, 258-9, 600

and D'Ivernois, xxxviii, 124, 130, 133n, 144-5n, 164, 207-8, 258, 261-2, 275, 276, 307-8, 311, 313, 363, 600

envies TJ's retirement, 50, 71, 72

casts vote in Senate, 69

on Jay Treaty, 71-2, 449

opposes aristocratic government, 71

on written laws and political revolutions, 71

contrasts farming and politics, 208

political opinions of, 208

laments changes in Cabinet, 258

and Vall-Travers, 363-4

appoints B. Washington to Supreme Court, 480n

accounts with U.S., 486, 524, 619

on French Revolution, 600

Adams, John Quincy, 495

Adams, Richard

letter to, 219-20

letter from, 224

identified, 219-20n

letter from cited, 224n

and Short's financial affairs, 241, 355

Adams, Samuel

opposes Jay Treaty, 601

address of quoted, 602n

mentioned, 133n

Adams, Samuel G., 116n

Adams, Thomas

edits Independent Chronicle, 509

Adet, Pierre Auguste

letter to, 503-4

letter from, 458-9

identified, 459n

as diplomat to Geneva, 192, 194, 239

recruits Genevan scholars, 194

minister of France to U.S., 314

and Jay Treaty, 400n

regard for TJ as philosopher, 458, 503-4

assesses TJ's views, 459n

supports TJ for president, 459n

and Pictet, 503, 504, 505

and Volney, 525

presents French flag to Washington, 578-9

Aeneid (Virgil)

quoted, 14, 163n

Aeschylus

writings of, 358

Aesop

fable of wolves and sheep, 219

mentioned, 185, 229

Agamemnon (Aeschylus)

TJ owns, 358

agriculture

O. Bertrand sends information, prospectus on, 16-19, 74-5

in Belgium, 17

plan for state society of, 36

Coxe's thoughts on, 89-90

and shortage of labor in U.S., 94, 294

importance of, in U.S., 277

cultivation of vetch in Europe, 291

and restoration of land, 299-301

TJ on small farms as sources of income, 341

Strickland's observations on, 372n

British Board of Agriculture, 409

Volney's interest in, 526, 551

honesty of Americans engaged in, 618

Aij, France. See Ay (Aij), France

Albemarle Co., Va.

crops and weather in, 56, 457-8

hiring of slaves in, 242

land prices, 305, 309, 327-8, 333, 354, 356n, 379, 381, 580

building costs in, 361

TJ praises, 368

plans address to President on Jay Treaty, 435

lack of gristmills in, 473n

Albemarle County Court

rumor of Genet's recall at, 21

TJ plans to attend, 331, 340

TJ sues in, 406n

approval for mills, 471-4, 477, 480-1

damage to records during War for Independence, 570-1

Alcock, Weston, 625

Alexander, Eli

letter from, 342

identified, 235n

engaged as overseer at Shadwell, 22

computes consumption of corn, 235

memorandums from, 235, 236, 243

buckwheat recipe, 236

compiles list of stock, 243

farm equipment, 342

TJ's account with, 552n

Alexander, William (Augusta Co.)

letter to, 487

orders nails, 487

letter from cited, 487n

letter to cited, 487n

Alexandria, Va.

newspapers, 428

and Jay Treaty, 433, 449, 460, 540

Algiers

and British diplomacy, truce with Portugal, 25, 28n, 102

corsairs attack U.S. shipping, 27-8

relations with Denmark, 188

U.S. relations with, 546, 548n

U.S. treaty with, 601, 606, 613-14, 624

Algiers, American captives in

ransom of, 453

Algiers, Dey of. See Ali Hassan, Dey of Algiers

alien law

of New York, 153

Ali Hassan, Dey of Algiers, 102, 188

Allegheny Co., Pa.

and Whiskey Insurrection, 183n

state assembly expels legislators from, 222n

Allegheny mountains

height of measured, 597-8

Allen, Ebenezer, 578n

Almodóvar del Río, Pedro Jiménez de Góngora y Luján, Duque de

revises Raynal, 510n

Alsace

and War of First Coalition, 23

American Husbandry, 372-3n

American Minerva (New York)

read by Ebeling, 424

TJ on, 506, 509

American Philosophical Society

D. Stewart's membership in, 285

and Vall-Travers, collections for, 363-5, 469-70

TJ presents books to, 365n

and Strickland's paper on use of thermometer in navigation, 372n

and Williams's barometric observations, 594-9

American Revolution

J. Carey's publication of letters from, 324

pensions for French officers who fought in, 343-4, 463-4, 498, 613-4

Ebeling seeks information about, 425-6

medals for officers who served in, 486

and republicanism, 506-7

destruction of court records during, 570-1

departure of British army following, 625n

American Universal Geography (Jedidiah Morse), 424, 428n

Ames, Fisher

burned in effigy, 44-5

as candidate for Congress, 202, 221

Amherst Co., Va.

and N. Davies's will, 109-10

plans address to President on Jay Treaty, 435

Amsterdam

and War of First Coalition, 316, 422

occupied by France, 328

and U.S. payments, 443, 488

Anderson, Mr. (son of Nathaniel), 342-3

Anderson, Francis, 605

Anderson, Nathaniel

TJ recommends son of, 342-3

letters from cited, 343n

letters to cited, 343n

and Mazzei's finances, 369, 500, 599, 603

Anderson, Richard

in TJ's accounts, 416, 536

Anderson, William (London merchant)

and Mazzei's finances, 369, 500, 599, 603

Andrews, George

Report of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, 351

Andrews, Mary Blair, 370

Andrews, Robert

and Mazzei's finances, 384-5

opposes Jay Treaty, 433

Andrews, Rev. Robert, 370

Antiquités romaines de Denys d'Halicarnasse (Dionysius of Halicarnassus)

ordered by TJ, 358

Anville, Madame d'. See Enville, Louise Elisabeth de La Rochefoucauld, Du- chesse d'

Appomattox river

mills on destroyed by storm, 439

arbitration

proposed by TJ for settlement of boundary dispute, 337-8

architecture

of D'Ivernois's "New Geneva," 171.

Argus, or Greenleaf's New Daily Advertiser (New York)

publishes "Camillus" essays, 431n

publishes "Cato" essays, 433n

Arnold, Benedict, 44-5

Arnoux, Abb‚, 361, 453

Art de bien faire les glaces d'office (M. Emy)

ordered by TJ, 359

Arthur's distillery

destroyed in flood, 439

artichokes

grown at Monticello, 225

artisans

for proposed Genevan settlement, 153, 175

clock repairer in Staunton, 351

blacksmiths, 579

carpenters, 579

Artois, Charles Philippe, Comte d', 532

Askin, John, 576-8

asparagus

grown at Monticello, 50, 225

asses

for breeding, 48, 227-8

association, freedom of

threatened by attack on democratic societies, 359

Ast, William Frederick

letter from, 257-8

sends fire insurance plan, 257-8

letters from cited, 258n

letter to cited, 258n

Athenaeus

Quinz livres des Deipnosophistes, 358

Atkyns, John Tracy

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, 351, 399

attorneys

and public opinion, 76

taxes on fees of, 480n

Auckland. See Eden, William, Baron Auckland

Aurora (Philadelphia)

TJ seeks bound copies of, 377, 467, 560

publishes Monroe's reports from France, 397-8n, 533n

and Jay Treaty, 400n, 559

politics of, 509

TJ subscribes to, 560, 592

Australia

visited by Malaspina, 383n

Austria

interferes in French internal politics, 90

and War of First Coalition, 310, 395, 426, 533

convention with Great Britain, 411, 412n

holding French prisoners, 412n

and battle near Mannheim, 533

Authentic History of the Origin and Progress of the Late Revolution in Geneva (François D'Ivernois), 144-5n

Autun, Bishop of. See Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de

Ay (Aij), France

wines of, 361